Had they somehow overlooked the simplest option? For Maeve to have been in Doranelle this entire time, hidden from her subjects? But that commander had been lying filth. He’d spat in Lorcan’s face before they’d ended it. The other commander they’d found today, however, after a week of hunting him down at the nearest seaport, had claimed he’d received orders from a distant kingdom they’d searched three weeks ago. In the opposite direction of Doranelle. Lorcan toed at the dirt. None of them had felt like speaking since the commander this afternoon had contradicted the first’s claim. “Doranelle
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